Operations Research/Undersea Systems Analyst

• Lead Small Teams of Engineers – track, develop, and manage the technical performance of 2 – 4 Research and Development (R&D) Engineers
• Aggregate Subject Matter Expertise – work with a diverse group of experts, including Navy officers, engineers, scientists, and mathematicians, to understand problems from many perspectives
• Shape Direction of Analysis – resolve questions about complex or ill-defined systems and deliver concrete findings and guidance to customers
• Perform Concept Assessments – leverage modeling and simulation to evaluate technologies and concepts for current and/or future, next generation undersea systems
• Deliver Clear Results – communicate technical findings to community stakeholders and to sponsors within the Department of Defense (DoD) or Intel Community (IC) in honest and compelling ways
• Pursue Future Work – promote our identify as a technically competent research center and propose work opportunities to DoD and IC sponsors

• →Managing larger teams of 3 – 10 people
• →Providing inputs to strategic planning for the department

• Computing languages or frameworks for scientific/engineering analysis such as C++, MATLAB, Simulink, R, or Python
• Creativity in environments where the problem is not initially well-defined
• Absorb a broad array of information from scientific and/or mathematical fields
• Identify relationships between a system and its operational usage - logistics, planning, environmental, and risk factors
• Past success expressing yourself and ideas successfully to others in order to provide understanding
• Past success in providing ideas in written form for clear comprehension to an audience
• Previous experience with collaborations in a multi-disciplinary, team-oriented culture

• Undersea systems and the ability to apply this experience to assess new concepts
• Modeling and simulation, particularly to resolve questions of interacting systems, applied physics, or mathematics
• Demonstrated experience in task management for small teams
• Current eligibility for access to classified information at the Secret level or higher and may be subject to a government background investigation to upgrade clearance eligibility, if required ​

ARL’s purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions to challenging scientific, engineering, and technology problems in support of the Navy, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Intel Community (IC).

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